Hi. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 06:59:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > [email protected] writes: > > > Since the shell entry for news is set deliberately by me, I expect > > base-passwd to ASK whether it may change it. > > It does, but it asks with a debconf prompting level chosen via an educated > guess about some combination of how likely it is that the change was > important, intentional, not spammy on upgrades, etc. It sounds like that > heuristic failed in your case. Unfortunately, we have to make a guess at > what priority to use for everyone. > > The general rule of thumb is that changes to home directories, UIDs, GIDs, > or removing a user entirely are asked with high priority, changes to > shells are asked with medium priority, and changes to GECOS and some other > low-impact stuff are asked with low priority. So you would need your > prompting level set to medium or lower to see the prompts about shell > changes. >
IIUC, such changes to user shells that may happen without administrator confirmation, even if desirable, may need some documentation in the release notes. Hence, FYI, my request per #771925. Hope this helps. Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER (OpenPGP: 4096R/7C5BB6A5 : http://weusepgp.info) http://www.olivierberger.com/weblog/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
